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A List Of Interesting Essay Topics On Honesty Is The Best Policy

Don’t you just love these ethical essays?! Rather than rolling your eyes in disgust, or berating the fact that you are stuck on your course, choose to see it in a different light. At least you are being asked to write about something that is positive and let’s face it, whether we choose to accept it or not, honesty generally is the best policy in life. Well, most of the time!

In case you are struggling to come up with an interesting angle on it, I have put together a list of topics to get you started:

Why is the modern generation less honest than previous generations?

Are people who preach this policy hypocrites?

Is it really possible for people to be honest all of the time?

Honesty may be the “best” policy but it is not the “only” policy: discuss

Examine the implications for society if everyone were honest all of the time.

Is there such a thing as an “honest” criminal?

Should public figures who are proven to have been dishonest be stripped of their jobs?

Is there any evidence to suggest that children that are honest grow into honest adults?

How do you define honesty? Honesty to one person might be dishonesty to someone else?

Are there times when honesty is not the best policy?

Is honesty genetic? If you come from a dishonest family are you less likely to be able to follow an honest path in life?

What more can schools, community groups and churches do to promote the idea of honesty being the best policy?

Is it really society’s duty to promote this, or is it down to each individual to take ownership and responsibility for the path that they wish to follow in life?

Should children be encouraged to sign up to an “honesty charter?”

Is this policy potentially divisive? Does it risk causing divisions in families where maybe one sibling is honest and the other isn’t?

Is the concept of “honesty being the best policy” simply a load of hogwash?

Does anyone really care?

Is it better to be an honest sinner than a dishonest hypocrite?

Does this policy simply give do-gooders the opportunity to gloat and lord it over people they consider morally inferior?